COURSE DETAILS

There is one job in every business that cannot be postponed, cannot be skipped, and cannot be handed to just anyone - the accounts. A shop can delay its advertising, a factory can delay a repair, but nobody can delay a GST return. This is the simple reason accounting has remained one of the safest careers in the country, and why a trained accountant finds work in a town as easily as in a city.

The DFA with GST programme at NIMACT is designed to train the student in the latest IT based accounting techniques, with the curriculum and study material revised every six months to keep pace with changes in tax rules, Tally versions and reporting requirements. Advice is taken on a continuing basis from practising accountants and CA offices, so that what is taught in the classroom matches what is actually asked for at a desk.

GST is the centre of this course

The introduction of GST changed accounting in India permanently. It also created a large gap in the market, because a great many people who were doing accounts before GST never properly learned it, and they now depend on someone else every time a return is due.

So GST is not treated as one chapter here. The student is taken through the whole subject - the tax structure and how it replaced the earlier system, tax incidence and who bears it, rate slabs and HSN codes, computation of CGST, SGST and IGST, input tax credit and how it is utilised, reverse charge, tax payment and challan, return filing, e-way bill, e-invoicing, and the compliance and reporting side including reconciliation and the common notices a business receives. Alongside GST, the student also learns TDS, TCS, income tax basics, and the VAT and service tax concepts that still appear in older records and examinations.

Why manual accounting is taught before Tally

Many institutes hand the student Tally on the first day and teach him which key to press. That produces someone who can make an entry but cannot explain it, and who is completely stuck the moment a balance does not match or an auditor asks a question.

Here the order is reversed. The student first learns accounting as a subject - the core concepts, the terminology, the principles, the golden rules, and the logic of why a particular account is debited and another credited. He writes journals by hand, prepares ledgers, draws a trial balance and completes final accounts on paper. Only after this does the software begin. The result is an accountant who understands the entry rather than one who remembers the shortcut, and that difference shows immediately in a real job.

The professional side of finance

DFA does not stop at book keeping. It moves into the areas an employer actually needs help with - analysis of financial statements and what the ratios are telling the owner, working capital and why a profitable business can still run short of cash, budgeting and variance, cost centres and department wise profitability, loans, EMI and interest computation, depreciation methods, bank reconciliation, and inventory and stock valuation.

These are the topics that separate a data entry person from an accounts professional. Anyone can record a sale. The person who can tell the owner why his profit rose but his bank balance fell is the person who gets promoted.

Software and hands on practice

Extensive practical work is done on Tally Prime and Tally ERP 9 - company creation, masters, vouchers, inventory, cost centres, GST setup and returns, TDS, payroll, banking, security control, backup and data migration. Alongside Tally, MS Excel and Advanced Excel are taught as the business analysis tool, because in practice a large part of accounting work still arrives and leaves as a spreadsheet.

How NIMACT's model applies to accounts

The institute runs on AI > Programming Language (Coding) > Apps, and accounting benefits from all three.

AI is used as a study and verification partner. ChatGPT, Claude AI, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity are used to explain a difficult entry in simple language, to understand what a GST notice or a tax rule actually means, to check whether a treatment is correct, and to practise questions before an exam or an interview. The limits are taught with equal seriousness, because in accounts a confident wrong answer becomes a wrong return, and a wrong return becomes a penalty.

Coding enters through Excel automation. The student learns to build formula driven sheets and simple VBA macros, so that repeated monthly work - bill entry formatting, GST summary preparation, salary calculation - stops being done by hand every time.

Apps is the final stage, where the student builds working tools: a billing file that prints a proper GST invoice, a salary and attendance system with PF and ESI deduction, an auto GST report generator, a stock register with reorder alerts, and a dashboard where an owner sees his sales, purchases, outstanding and profit on one screen.

What this course leads to

Shops, distributors, showrooms, factories, hospitals, schools, transport firms, CA offices and corporate branches all need accounts staff, and the usual profiles are Accountant, Accounts Assistant, Tally Operator, GST Executive, Billing Executive, Store and Inventory Executive, Audit Assistant and Accounts Manager in a small firm.

There is also a strong independent route in this field, and it deserves attention. A trained person can maintain the books of several small businesses at once, file their GST returns every month, and earn a steady monthly amount from each of them - without a job, without an office, and without waiting for anyone to recruit him. In a small town this is often more profitable than employment, and it is one of the few skills where that is genuinely possible within six months.

Who Should Attend: Students of 10th, 12th BA, B.Sc., and B.Com, M.Com, BBA and MBA who want practical accounting skill alongside their degree, since a degree alone does not teach Tally or GST filing. Beginners from any stream who want to enter the accounting field. People already working in accounts or billing who were never formally trained in GST. Shop owners, traders and business persons who want to maintain and understand their own books. Anyone planning independent practice in book keeping and GST return filing.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Students who have passed 10th standard are eligible to pursue this course. 

SYLLABUS

To get a better idea about the course structure, let us go through a list of important subjects present in this program. Note: Only the important subjects have been mentioned.

• Business Applications
• Basic of Accounting
• Manual Accounting
• Accounting Concepts
• Microsoft Excel
• Advanced Excel Tools & Techniques for Analysing Data
• Excel Professional Skills
• Data Analysis
• Advanced Computerized Financial Accounting Using Tally Prime 
• Advanced Business Analysis : Tools & Techniques
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) - ChatGPT, Grok, Deep Seek, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Wand
• Corporate Finance & Management Accounting
• Tally Features
• Leadgers & Groups
• Voucher (Pre - Defined and User Defined)
• Features & Configuration Settings
• Accounting Documents
• Accounting & Inventory Features 
• Traders Financial Accounts
• Banking
• Manufacturing 
• Tax Accounting (GST, VAT, CST, Excise Duty, FBT, TCS, Income Tax, TDS, Service Tax etc.)
• Payroll
• Data Migration
• MIS
• TDL 
• Report Printing
• Project Work

Most of the subjects mentioned above have both Theoretical Studies and Practical Sessions associated with them. Project work is present. Students will have to undertake and complete a project work related to the field of IT, under the guidance of faculty members.

CAREER PROSPECTS AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Some of the job profiles that students can look forward to, post successful completion of the program and academic studies:

• Finance & Accounts Executive
• Accounts Executive
• Finance Executive
• Executive Accountant
• Accountant